Ana Van Gulick
Ana is the Head of Customer Engagement for Government, Funders & Nonprofits at Digital Science and manages the Government and Funder program at Figshare. She is a PI in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative and currently co-chairs community engagement activities for the program. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and has worked in open data and open science for more than 10 years.
Session
Connecting digital objects across the data repository landscape is critical for ensuring that open data are discovered and reused. Global adoption of common PIDs across repositories facilitates broad cross-repository discoverability, enables impact assessment and researcher credit, and supports compliance monitoring by funders and institutions. The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative brings seven generalist repositories together - working in a “coopetition” model - with a key objective to connect digital objects by enhancing dataset metadata quality, completeness, and consistency. Over the past 4 years GREI repositories have developed and implemented a common metadata recommendation that relies heavily on PIDs including DataCite DOIs, ORCID, and ROR. This presentation will showcase examples of GREI repository PID implementation, use cases, and repository best practices, as well as the impact of PID-based collaborations with DataCite, ROR, and NLM, and the value of common PIDs for author, affiliation, and funding metadata in better connecting data repositories.